By Council issue update on Doncaster’s green bin service
Doncaster Council have issued an update on when the green bin collection service is expected to return.
Bin collections were suspended earlier this year due to the coronavirus crisis, as the Council prioritised the collection of black and blue bins.
However, Doncaster’s green bin collection service is now set to return under a temporary, revised schedule.
As off June 23, each household will see their green bins collected once every four weeks.
The first round of collections are expected to take until mid-July to complete.
Residents across the borough will receive a letter through their door next week notifying them of the date their collection is set to resume.
Bins should be placed on the kerbside at 7am on the appropriate collection day.
Cabinet member for Communities, Voluntary Sector and the Environment, Cllr Chris McGuinness said:
“Thank you to residents for bearing with us at this difficult time and for keeping their green waste at home or composting it.
“I’d also like to thank bin collection crews who are key workers and have been working with a reduced workforce due to self-isolation and shielding and staff and vehicles that would normally collect green waste have been collecting black and blue bins to keep these collections going.
“The amount of residual and recycled waste has increased during lockdown and levels have been similar to what we would experience around the Christmas and New Year period.
“We are reintroducing green bin collections monthly at first to enable us to clear the backlog of green waste and to make sure physical distancing can be maintained and that services are safe for staff and residents.
“We hope to be able to reintroduce fortnightly collections in the near future and residents will be kept informed.”
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